Will try tomorrow. Just set up trip. Should be cool.
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Will try tomorrow. Just set up trip. Should be cool.
Some really nice crappie caught on Harris yesterday at the tournament. Caught fish all day and seemed like the the Harris it has always been.
Where did u catch fish at ?
What tournament was yesterday.
Today we put in at crosspoint ramp and went to right
Just passed dam, went to road bed . Water was like chocolate milk, turned around headed back toward main lake side. I looked in 40' 30' and 20' couldn't find any bait fish schools. A few small schools here and there. Talked with alot of fishermen , no one was catching
Don't know lake well enough for crappie. Got skunked
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Originally Posted by JordanLimit
im gonna disagree with the harris it has always been, about 4-5 years ago on a good day 7 fish coulda broke 17, even on a good day now i'm not sure you could break 14, its still got some pigs but just less of them but they maybe to more to pressure than lake management
The Bigeyecrappieman tournament on Harris yesterday. Twenty-three teams competing. We were culling and throwing back 1.3 pound crappie, but could only land one over 2 pounds. Kevin is right--it seemed like the old days, but in past years, it would take 14 pounds to win on Harris. Three teams had over 12, which is way under the total winners had in past years. All fish we caught, including the ones we weighed in, were returned to the water. If Duke Power and the NC Wildlife would manage the lake right, the breeding stock to return the lake to good numbers is there.
a tournament or two doesnt hurt the lake, its the guys that hit it right and keep 100 of the best fish the lake has to offer and do it over and over, you get a dozen boats like that and it hurts your truly big class of females, harris is to small of a lake not to be managed, crappie fishing is getting bigger and bigger and the wildlife needs to take notice and regulate the harvest of this gem, before it become mediocre, 10 yrs ago no limit on harris was needed but this is 2020 and that is not the case, be nice if anglers could just regulate themselves, i'd much rather filet some 10-12'' fish than those big girls, ya gotta cut there filets up to gettem to fry right and the smaller ones taste better anyhow, its kinda like growing big bucks, ya gotta let the gooduns grow to be great and spread there genes and offspring and eat the does or in this case the small ones
I would like to see a slot limit and creel limit on Harris and Jordan. Jordan has a min. and a creel limit but a slot would help protect the big females.
How deep were the fish ?
Most of the fish were caught in less than 20', many in water shallower than that.
It's hard to believe that a month ago bigeyecrappieman tournament moved from harris to Jordan because of poor lake conditions being no one was catching fish to now a month later at least the top 5 teams was averaging 1.75lb fish.
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Water temp. Was 51° yesterday 52-53° in coves.
So I assume fish were not under bait fish ? They were holding on structure ?
Also had 8-10 mile winds
I think the guys that finished 2nd Saturday have been catching good fish there all along. They have a livescope and are very god at using it. They told us they'd been catching 10 plus lbs about each and every trip out. I know a couple of boats caught over 13lbs earlier in the week. Just because an angler is struggling to catch fish on a certain body of water that day, doesn't mean everyone is.Quote:
Originally Posted by MattBerry35
I agree I never said anything about that I said its hard to believe that in a months time there when from no fish to an average 1.75lb fish. If you remember when the tournament got switch to Jordan due to poor lake conditions the question was asked "what poor lake conditions? " and the response was "no one is catching fish" so just because they was struggling on that body of water at that point in time the whole tournament got changed? Me and my partner were catching fish the week before that tournament got changed.Quote:
Originally Posted by jack
Just wondering that's all
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The fishing at that lake has been bad. 1 you have people cast netting at night there and keeping everything (As noted by Special K. Then they killed the hydrilla. Killing the hydrilla sent the fist that are there in to wood. Now its getting toward the spawn and they are coming out and to the flats. (My Guess anyway. I caught only 1 fish Saturday so what do I know)
It's funny that they are doing a White Bass Study on Falls Lake. I think there needs to be a Crappie Study on Harris. Crappie fishing is going to bring the state more revenue than White Bass.